Talking-machine.



G. W. BROGAN.

TALKING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED 0GT.10, 1912.

Patented June 16,1914.

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Patented June 16, 1914.

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TALKING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 16, 1914.

Application filed October 10, 1912. Serial No. 724,952.

In sound producing machines, such as those commonly called talking machines) graphophones, and the like, it has been customary, so far as I am aware, to manually apply and remove each sound record or disk, for each musical composition, speech, or the like, to be rendered, entailing considerable pauses in the continuity of rendition of the pieces required by the time necessarily consumed in removing and replacing the records.

The object of my invention is to provide means to support one u on another a series of sound-records or dis (s, and to automatically apply, one after another, the records or disks in position for cooperation with the pin of the sound-box, and to automatically cause the required movement of the soundbox to and from the records or disks after the latter have been successively placed in position for rotation, whereby when a series of superposed records have been placed in the machine, and the driving mechanism is started, the musical compositions, speeches or the like will be rendered from said records one after another, without requiring the machine to be stopped until all of such records have been used.

In carrying out my invention I provide, in a sound producing machine'having any suitable means for supporting and rotating sound records or disks and the sound-box to coact therewith, means to support a series or plurality of superposed records or disks, means to lower and raise said records and to separate from the series the lowermost record and deposit it upon the record or records that have been used upon the record rotating devices, and means to cause the soundbox to be raised and moved away from the records that have been used, and to be moved back over and lowered toward the new record that has been deposited for use, whereby the records may be used successively with thesound-box while the machine continues to operate.

My invention also comprises novel details of improvement and combinations of parts that will be more fully hereinafter set forth andthen pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming part hereof, wherein Figure 1 1s a s1de elevation of a talking machine embodylng my lnvention; Fig. 2

is an end view of Fig. 1, looking from the righthand side, parts being removed, and showing the parts in the playing position; Fig. 3 1s a cross section substantially on the line 3, 3, in Fig. 1; Figs. 4, 5 and 6 are detail vicwsillustrating, in different positions, the dog for separating and depositing one after another the superposed records or disks; Fig. 7 is a s'de elevation illustrating the parts in the positions assumed when the records are lowered to deposit an unused record in position for use, parts being omitted; Fig. 8 is a plan view of Fig. 7; Fig.9 is a section substantially on the line 9, 9, in Fig. 7 and Fig. 10 is an end view showing the parts in the position illustrated in Fig. 7, parts being removed; Fig. 11 is an enlarged section on the plane of the line 11, 11, in Fig. 1; Fig. 12 1s a similar view on the line 12, 12, in Fig. 1, and Fig. 13 is a detail view of part of the sound-pin operating device.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several views.

The numeral 1 in the accompanying drawings indicates a frame, 2 the record or disksupporting and rotating plate carried by shaft 3 that is journaled in said frame and provided with a gear 4 to mesh with driving gear 5 that is loose on shaft 6 (to be rotatively connected therewith as hereinafter explained) said. shaft being journaled in suitable hearings on said frame, in any suitable manner, all of which parts may be of any wellknown construction in talking machines of the class using record disks. The record disks 7 are adapted to be raised and lowered above plate 2, and to be automatically superimposed upon said plate one after another. At -8 is a rod slidable vertically through hollow shaft '3, and adapted to pass through centrally disposed holes in records '7, which rod rests upon and is adapted to be operated by a cam 9, as hereinafter explained, whereby the records 7 are guided for vertical and rotary movements. Upon frame 1, suitably spaced apart on opposite sides of records 7 are posts10 upon which a cross bar 11 is guided for up and down movement. Bar 11 is shown provided with guiding tubes or and rotated ing dogs 15 pivotally upwardly sleeves 12, slidable upon posts 10, and bar 11 rests upon the upper end of rod 8, whereby as said rod is raised and lowered by cam 9 bar 11 will be correspondingly operated. Bar 11 carries supports 14, suitably spaced substantially diametrically on opposite sides of records 7, said supports being provided adjacent to their lower ends with devices for supportingsuperimposed records, and depositing such records, one by one, upon records on plate 2. The devices I have shown for this purpose comprise inwardly extendcarried by supports 14, which dogs pivotally support fingers 16 that are adapted to swing downwardly. Dogs 15 at their inner ends are reduced or sharpened at 15 in order to conveniently pass between two records 7, and said dogs are normally held by springs 17 against stops 18 on supports 14 (Fig. 5) in which position the dogs 15 support one or more records 7 dogs 15 thereby being adaptedto swing upwardly. Fingers 16 are shown pivotally supported in the forked ends 15 of dogs 15 (Fig. 6) and are normally pressed by springs 19 carried by said dogs, stops 16 upon fingers 16 normally maintaining said fingers in their upward positions. The relative positions of parts 14, 15 and 16, with respect to the peripheries of records 7 are such that the records may rest upon the dogs for sup orting the records at a CllS- tance above p ate 2, as shown in Fig. 1, and

. when bar 11 and the records it supports are lowered, said dogs and fingers will act-to release the lowermost record to enable it to i rest upon plate 2 ,or the record or records Fig.

thereon, for successfully supplying new records for use from the series of unusedrecords, as more fully hereinafter'explained.

With the parts in the positions shown in 1, the uppermost record carried upon plate 2 will be in position to coact with the stylus 21 of sound box or reproducer 20, in the usual manner, and at such time gear 5 will be driven with shaft 6 to rotate plate 2 and the record or records thereon. For this purpose I have shown a clutch having a member 22 slidable upon shaft 6, adapted to be rotated thereby as by a spline and feather, said clutch member 22 on one side being adapted to engage clutch member 23 secured to gear 5, the opposite end of clutch member 22 being adapted, during shifting of the records, to engage clutch member 24 on a worm 25 secured on shaft 6.- Clutch member 22, in Fig. 1, is shown in the position forrotating plate 2 and the records it carries, and clutch member 22 is shown provided with a peripheral groove coacting with a shifting fork 26 carried by a rock shaft 26, suitably journaled in the: frame and having an arm 27 adapted to coact with cam 29 connected with a gear 30 rotatively mounted upon a shaft provided with a pin or. roller 28 or stud 31 carried by the frame. A spring 32 connected with arm 27 and with a pin or other part 33 normally maintains arm 27 depressed with its pin or roller 28 upon cam 2 Cam 29 is shown in Figs. 1 and 7 havreduced part 29 for a suitmg a cut out or able distance, whereby when pin or roller 28 is upon the high part of the cam, clutch tated by the worm 34 on shaft 35- journaled in the frame, which shaft may be rotated by any wellknown means used in machines of this class, such as a motor, manually operated crank or the like. Upon shaft 35 is a gear v36, in mesh with a gear 37 secured on shaft 6, whereby as shaft 35 is rotated gear 30, cam 29 and shaft 6 will be simultaneously rotated. When pin or roller 28 is upon the high part of cam 29 and clutch members 22, 23 are in engagement, causing rotation of plate 2 and the records carried thereby for rendition of the composition or piece from the uppermost of such records, cam 9 will be in such position as to retain bar 11 and the records supported thereby in an elevated position, so that the last named records will be above the sound-box 20 when the latter is operating upon the-uppermost record on plate 2. When pin or roller 28 drops off the edge 29 of the high part of cam 29 into the low part 29 of the cam, clutch member 22 will be shifted from member 23 into engagement with member 24, and cam 9 will be operated to cause bar 11 and the records carried thereby to be lowered to cause the lowermost record to be deposited upon a record on plate 2, and the sound box 20 will be caused to move to one side of the records while the transfer of records is being made, and then to move back over the record or the records upon plate 2. To this end I have shown cam 9 secured upon a shaft 9 journaled on the frame .and provided with a gear 38 in mesh with a gear 39 carried by a shaft 40 journaled in a bearing 41 carried by the frame, said shaft carrying a gear 42 in mesh with worm 25, whereby when clutch member 22 is causedto engage clutch member 24, plate 2 will cease rotating and shaft 9", through the gearing just described, will be driven from worm 25 to rotate cam 9, whereby rod 8, bar 11, record supports 14, and the records carried by the latter, will be lowered. When roller 28 first'drops into the low part 29 of cam 29 and worm 25 then begins to rotate, sound box 20 will first be raised from again raised, and while bar 11 is rising and just before roller 28 rides up on the high part of cam 29 sound box 20 will be moved back over the records on plate. 2 and its stylus 21 will be lowered upon the outer portion of the uppermost record, whereupon clutch member 22 will be released from clutch member 24 and rengaged with clutch member 23, to again cause plate 2 to rotate for rendering from the record, in the usual manner. To this end I have shown sound box 20 pivotally supported to rockvertically and swing laterally, for which purpose in the example illustrated, the horn 20 carrying the sound box is pivotally carried on a vertically disposed rock shaft 43 suitably journaled on framefl. Shaft 43 at its upper end is shown provided with a yoke 43 carrying a pin or shaft 44 upon which is pivotally mounted a bracket or arm 45 secured to horn 20 Below horn 20 is a vertically movable rod 46 slidable in a suitable guide 47 carried by frame 1, said rod being shown provided at its upper end with a head piece 48 to bear under horn 20, said head piece I being shown provided with a guide rod 49 depending through a guiding opening in frame 1 to keep said head from rotating while permitting its up and down movements. Rod 46 rests upon and is actuated by a cam 50, secured upon shaft 9. rod 46 being shown provided with a roller 46 to work on said cam. When a piece is being rendered rod 46 will rest in the recess or low part 50 of cam 50 so that the sound box will be lowered to enable its stylus 21 to rest upon the uppermost record on plate 2, but when shaft 9 first rotates and the high art of cam 50 raises rod 46, horn 28will be t1 ted to raise stylus 21 from the record. Head piece 48 is of suflicient length to enable horn 20 to rest thereon, while the latter is being shifted or swung, to car the sound box away from over the recor s on plate 2-and back thereover (see 8).

Just after the sound-box has been raised from the topmost record upon plate 2. a finger 51 carried by shaft 9 will engage a pin 52 projecting from rod 43 (Fig. 1), and willand bar 11 and its remaining records to be raised, by the now continued rotation of cam 9, because at such time shaft 9v will be rota ed by worm 25 and the connected gearing. When bar 11 has nearly reached the limit of its upward stroke, and before the high part of cam 29 shifts clutch member 22' back to clutch member 23, an arm or finger 53 secured on shaft 9 will engage the projection or pin 54 (Fig. 2), connected with rod 43 on the side opposite pin 52 and rotate said rod to return the sound box over the records on plate 2. Said projection 54 first encounters a lug or ear 55 on a latch 55 pivotally supported at 56 on the main frame, which latch normally rests-upon a pin 57, (Fig. 10). Said lug or car 55 stops the sound boxfland its stylus 21 adjacent to the outer periphery of the uppermost record on plate 2, just before rod 46 drops into the low part 50" of cam 50. Slight further rotation of shaft 9 carries finger 53 away. from projection 54 and into of latch 55' raising its lug 55 out of the path of projection 54 (Fi 2), and rod 46 will drop into recess 50 o cam 50, causing stylus .21 to rest upon the last named record, and thereupon the high part of cam 29 will operate clutch member 22 to shift it from clutch member 24 to clutch member 23, the sound box and-horn now being free. to move inwardly of the records on plate 2 during the rotation of said records which now takes place. The sound record shifting devices tions shown in Fig. 2 with arm or finger53 retaining latch 55 elevated. When arm or finger 53 next movesaway from latch 55, the latterwill drop and rest upon stop 57, then retaining lug 55 in the path of projection 54, (Fig. 10). I

In the arrangement illustrated the supports 14 are set to receive records of a certain size, say ten inches in diameter, but if it is desired to use larger-records, such as twelve inches in diameter, means are pro- To this end I have shown bar'11 provided with slots 11 (Fig. 8) receiving screws or 14, and provided with nuts 14, whereby supthen secured to bar 11, to accommodate disks of different diameters as desired.

As it is desirable to frequently replace the styli 21 for coaction with the records, and as with my improvements a series of records may be used one after another without stopping the machine, I have provided means for automatically shifting styli '21 as the rec- I have shown a support 60, shown in the form of a bent wire, having one end rewill now remain in substantially the posiords are automatically changed. To this end engagement with the inclined under edge 55 i vided to enable the record-supports 14 to be adjusted radially of the records along bar 11.

threaded studs 14 extending'from supports ports 14 may be adjusted alongslots 11 and I ceived in the socket of sound box 20 where the'usual sound stylus is placed and secured by screw 61 (Figs. 11 and 12), and to the outer end of said support 60 is secured a stud 62 upon which a stylus carrying disk 63 is rotatively mounted. For convenience in readily replacing styli 21 upon disk 63 the latter is shown made in two separable parts 63*, 63*, having recesses 63 to receive the inner ends of styli 21, and nut 62 on screw 62 serves to clamp the members of disk 63 upon styli 21. To disk 63 is secured a ratchet wheel 64 adapted to be engaged by a dog or projection 65* on a rod 65, shown pivotally supported upon a rock arm 66, that is pivotally carried, at 67, upon a bracket or the like 68, shown secured upon the side of horn 20". Spring 69 (Fig. 1) connected with rod 65 and with a suitable support, as with the part 67 tends normally to retain rod 65 retracted. Rod 65 is shown supported to move in a guide 70 on horn 20 The lower bent end 66 of rocker 66 is adapted to pass under an abutment 71, shown in the form of a bent finger, secured upon frame 1 (Fig. 11) and projecting transversely thereof, the end 66 of arm 66'being normally free below the level of abutment 71. The arrangement is such that when said pin operating parts are in the normal position, as shown in Fig. 1, one of the styli 21 will be in position to coact with the uppermost disk upon plate 2, end 66 of rocker arm 66 will be lower than abutment 71, and dog 65 will be" substantially in the position shown in Fig. 13. When the sound-box and horn have been moved inwardly, and cam 50 causes rod 46 to rise to raise the sound box upwardly, the projection 66 will encounter abutment 71 and cause arm 66 to be rockeo to push rod 65 to the left in Fig. 1, thereby causing dog 65 to rotate the ratchet 64 one step thereby rotating disk 63 and its stylus 21 to present a new stylus position to act on a record; when the sound box 1s moved outwardly away from the records the end '66 of arm 66 will be released from abutment 71, spring 69 will restore said arm, rod 65 and dog 65 to the normal positions (Fig. 13) ready to again rotate disk 63 upon the next rise of sound box 20. By the means described each time a record has been used and the sound box 20 has been raised, the disk 63 will be automatically rotated to present a new stylus for use, and such styli may be replaced as often as desired, whereby dur ing the rendering of a series of records placed in the machine a different stylus may be automatically set for use for each record.

The complete operation may be described as follows: Assume that a record is upon plate 2, and that a desired number or series ofrecords are supported by fingers 15 of record-supports 14, by having removed bar 11, placed. the records upon fingers 15, and

plate 2, and that latch 55 replaced bar 11 on posts 10 and rod 8, that roller 28 is upon the high part of cam 29 atits edge 29, clutch members 22, 23 thus be: ing in engagement; that sound box 20 is in position over the outer portion of the lower records, with stylus 21 in position to commence action on the uppermost record on is held up by arm 53 as in Fig. 2. The rotation of shaft 35 will thereupon, through worm 34' and gear 30, rotate cam 29 in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 1, and said shaft, through the appropriate gearing will rotate plate 2 and the record or records thereon in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 8, whereupon stylus 21, coacting with the uppermost record on plate 2 in the usual manner, will cause the sound box to feed inwardly, turning rod 43 with it, and thus moving pins 52 and 54 to the right, (Fig. 8). When plate 2 and its record are rotated sufiiciently to complete rendition of the piece and the sound box has been moved completely inwardly, with the end 66 of arm 66 carried under abutment 71, and cam 29 has been rotated so that pin or roller 28 drops off edge 29 of said cam into the low part 29 thereof, clutch member 22 will be shifted into engagement with clutch member 24 (the record-driving gearing being then unclutched at 22, 23, causing plate 2 and its records to cease rotation), and thereupon worm 25, through the appropriate gearing, will rotate shaft 9, cam 29 still continuing to rotate. When shaft 9 now begins to rotate, arm or finger 53 will pass away from latch 55 allowing the latter to drop and move its lug 55 in front of projection 54; cam 50 will rotate to raise rod 46 and thereby cause stylus 21 to be lifted from the sound record, arm 66 will be rocked by engagement with abutment 71, causing dog 65 to rot-ate ratchet 64 and disk 63 one step presenting a new stylus 21 over the records in position for use, and thereupon arm or finger 51 (moving in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 10) will engage pin 52 and rotate shaft 43, causing the sound box to swing outwardly from the dotted position shown in Fig. 8 free from the record or records on plate 2, to substantially the full line posit-ion shown in said figure, and arm 66 and rod 65 will return to their normal positions. Thereupon cam 9 will have been rotated sufficiently far to allow rod 8 to descend, whereupon bar 11 with the records it carries will be lowered substantially to the position shown in Figs. 7 and 10, with fingers 16 resting upon the uppermost record on plate 2. A continued descent of bar 11 and its records, with fingers 16 resting upon thelast named record, causes dog 15 to tilt, so that their inner ends 15 slide upwardly past the edge of the lowermost record 7, and when rod 8 rests in the low part of cam 9, (Fig. 10) the ends 15 of said dogs will be in position to pass between the edges of record 7 and the record next thereabove, so that when earn 9 next begins to raise rod 8 the springs 17 will cause the ends .15 of dogs 15 to enter between said records, while fingers 16 still remain between record 7} and the record next below the same, as

, shown in Fig. 4. A continued upward movement of rod 8, raising bar 11, supports 14, and records 7, enables the ends 15 of dogs 15 to pass between record 7 and the record thereabove, by the action of springs 17 tiltllig dogs 15 back to their normal positions, ig. 5), thereby causing said dogs to support the records above them, and the continued riseof supports 14 and records supported by dogs 15 will then occur; thereupon from the uppermost recordon plate 2, and the weight of record 7 now'co'ming upon fingers 16, will cause them to tilt outwardly and deposit the record 7 upon the uppermost record upon plate 7, as shown in dotted linesin'Fig. 5. When supports 14 and dogs 15 have been raised by cam 9 sufliciently, the

fingers 16 will be released from the thus deposited record 7, .and the springs -;-19 will restore said fingers to their normal positions. Continued rotation of shaft 9, causing further rotation of cams9 and 50 and arms or fingers 51 and 53, occurs while pin or roll 28 is m the low part of cam 29, whereupon cam 9 raises rod 8, bar 11, supports 14,v and the records remaining on dogs 15, and just before pin or roll 28 rides up on the edge 29 of cam 29 arm or finger 53 will push pin 54, causing shaft 43 to rotate the soundbox back over the outer portion of the records on plate 2, until stylus 54 engages lug 55*, whereupon pin 21 will be in position to start action on the record. At such time cam 9 will have raised bar 11 and its records to the uppermost or normal positions; arm or finger 53 will pass away from projection 54, rod 46 will descend to the low part 50 of cam 50, and arm or finger 53 will engage and raise latch 55 to carry its lug 55; away from projection 54, and thereupon clutch members 22 and 24 will be disengaged by pin or roll 28 now riding up on the high part 29 of cam 29, the sound box operating devices will come to rest, clutch members 22 and 23 will reengage, and plate 2 and the records thereon-Will begin to rotate, and the operations described will be repeated. It will thus beunderstood that when a desired number of records have been placed upon the fingers 15 in an elevated position with, say, one record upon plate 2, that the machine may be started and'continuously operated until all of the records have been deposited one after another, and the, p eces rendered successively therefrom, without stoppingthe machine and without requiring manipulation of the parts by the user,

fingers 16 will move upwardly away other than the replacement of styli 21 if that becomes necessary.

Having now described my invention what I claim-is:

1. A talking machine comprising means for rotating records, means for supporting a series of records, and means for lowering said series of records toward said rotating means comprising means for depositing a record from such series upon said rotating means and raising the remaining records of said series therefrom.

2. A talking .machine comprising means for rotating records, means for supporting a series of records, means for lowering said series of records toward said rotating means comprising means for depositing a record from such series upon said rotating'means and raising the remaining records of said series therefrom, sound reproducing devices to coact with the records, and means to automatically place the sound reproducing devices :between the record on the .rotating means and said. series of records and for removing the sound reproducing devices therefrom. I

3. A: talking machine comprising .means for rotating records, means for supporting a series of records adjacent their edges abovesaid rotating means, and means for lowering said records and depositing upon-the rotating means the series while retainingthe series of records upon their supporting means and raising them from said rotating means.

4. A talking machine-comprising means for rotating records, means for supporting a series of records adjacent their edges above said rotating means, means for lowering said records and depositing upon the rotate ,ing means the lowermost record of said series. while retaining the remainder of said series of records upon means and raising them from said rotating means, sound reproducing devices, and meansfor automatically placing said sound reproducing devices thereabove. I

5. A talking machine comprising means to rotate records, record supports above said rotating means, and means to lower and raise said supports, said supports comprisingmeans to release a record and deposit it between a record on saidv rotating means and the series of records lowermost record of said remamder of said their supporting upon said rotating means and to retain other records upon said supports.

.6. A talking machine comprising means to rotaterecords, record supports abovesaid rotating'means, means to lower and raise said supports, said supports comprising means to release a record and deposit it upon said rotating means and to retain other records upon said. supports, sound reproducing devices, andmeans to ailtorniti latter.

to rotate records, record supports above said" rotatlng means,

-; cause said dogs to to rotate records, rotatingv means, means to lower and ralse' it, and

tween said' lowermost record and a recordand means to V rotating means,-

cally place said sound reproducing devices Between said rotating means and the records carried by said supports. -.l'-1-Z;-A.--talking machine comprisingmeans to rotate records, record supports above said means to lower and raise said supports, said supports comprising dogs-to support records, and means tocause the dogs topass between a lowermost record:and arecord thereabove to retain the 8, Atalking machine comprising means to rotate records, record supports above said rotating means, means tolower and raise said supports, said supports comprising said dogs havir g fingers adapted/tocause the dogs to release the lowermost record, and means to :ause the dogs to enter between-said lowermost record and the ree ordthereabove.

9; A talking machine comprisingmeans said supports, said supports comprising dogs, saiddogshaving movable fingersto releasethe lowermost record, and means to between said lowermost record and a record thereabove. k

10. A talking record supports above said said supports, said supports comprising dogs, said dogs having pivotal fingers adapt ed to swing downwardly, means to normally jhold said fingers in set positions upon the dogs, said fingers serving to cause the dogs to pass above-the lowermost record of the series, said fingers being adapted to move away from said lowermost record to release means to cause the dogs to enter bethereabove.

11. A talking machine comprising meansrotate records, record supports above ing dogs, said dogs being pivotally carried or said dogs,

cause said dogs to release 'a lowermost record and'to support the records thereabove. V

12. A talking machine comprising means to rotate records,; record supports above said -.irotat1ng means,

.means to lower and raise saidsupports, 9 dogs, said dogs saig supports, stops upon the supports' ,for sa1 adapted to tilt said release a'lowermost cause said dogs to ords.

dogs-to cause them to record, and means toenter between two rec .ducing means, and means to ing means,

the record and return the means to lower and raise I cause said dogs to'enter machine comprising means I one of said fingers being tatively support said styli,

by said supports, stops upon the supportswith said springs to actuate said dogs,

said supports comprising elng plvotally carried bv dogs, said dogs having pivotal fingers-- 13, A talkingma'chine comprising means" carriedby said support, styli detachably to rotate records, soundreproducing means to coa-ctwith said records, a, shaft movably carrying said sound reproducing means, said shaft being" provided with means to raise and lower said sound reproreturn it over a record."

14. A talking machine comprising means -to rotate records, sound reproducing means to coact with said records, a shaft movably carryingsaid sound, reproducing means, said shaft being provided with projections, arod having a head to'support said sound reproducing means, a cam to operate said rod to raise and lower said sound reproduca shaft carryingsaid cam,'and projections operative with said shaft to actuate said first named projections to move the sound reproducing means away' from 15. A talking machine comprising means to'rotate records, sound reproducing means to ,c'oact with said records, a shaft movably carrying said sound reproducing means, said 'shaftbelng provided with pr0]ect1ons, a.

rod having a head to support said sound remeans, said cam, fingers same over a record.

operative with said shaft to actuate said first named projections to move the sound reproducing means away from the record and return the same over a record, a latch to coact with one of said first named projections, adapted to raise the latch to permit movement of said last named projection, and means to retain the latch in' last named position to engage said not held tion when the latter is finger.

- 16. A talking machine eomprising means to rotate records, a sound box, means to movably support the sound box, a plurality of styli to coact with a record, means toroan arm, a dog connected'with the arm, a ratchet connected styli, and an abutment to coact with said arm to cause rotation of said styli upon movement of said arm. 17. A talking machine comprising means to rotate records, a sound 'box, means to movably support the sound box, a plurality of styli to coact with a record, a rotative dislit1 carrying said styli, a ratchet connected wit an 'arm supported to move with said sound boxand connected with said dog, and an abutment to actuate said arm upon appropriate movement of the sound box. 4 1,8, A- talking machine comprising means to rotate a record, a sound box, a support carried by the sound box, a disk rotativelv projecby said said disk, a dog to operate said ratchet,

carried by said disk, an arm connected with the sound box, means operated by the arm to rotate said disk, and means to operate said arm upon appropriate movement of the sound box.

19. A talking machine comprising-means to rotate a record, a sound box, a support earned by the sound box, a disk rota'tively carried by said support, styli detachably carried by said disk, a ratchet connected with said disk, an arm connected with the sound Signed at New York city, in the county 1st day of October, A Di 1912.

Witnesses:

T; F, BOURNE, MARIE F. WAmRIsHT.

GRAHAM W. BRDGAN.

of New York, and State of New York, this I 

